Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

Jiamin Xue; Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi; Danny Bulmash; Philippe Jacquod; Aparna Deshpande; K. Watanabe; T. Taniguchi; Pablo Jarillo-Herrero; Brian J. Leroy

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Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

Jiamin Xue, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Danny Bulmash, Philippe Jacquod, Aparna Deshpande, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Brian J. Leroy

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Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of its linear energy-momentum dispersion relations which cross at the Dirac point. However, accessing the physics of the low-density region at the Dirac point has been difficult because of disorder that leaves the graphene with local microscopic electron and hole puddles. Efforts have been made to reduce the disorder by suspending graphene, leading to fabrication challenges and delicate devices which make local spectroscopic measurements difficult. Recently, it has been shown that placing graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) yields improved device performance. Here we use scanning tunnelling microscopy to show that graphene conforms to hBN, as evidenced by the presence of MoirÃ

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	282-285
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature materials
Volume	10
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2968
State	Published - Apr 2011

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